house tries to manipulate the coverage on what they want focused on, which is the threat of attacks from overseas, given the court hearings we are witnessing and the pushback, this allows them to try to focus on that message, even if it s not reinforced by the facts. this cannot be allowed except it s happening. i want to bring back steve schmidt and jason johnson. what is going on? what is this? politics, pure and simple. security and liberty when it comes to matters like this in a democracy. the country has been at war since september, 2001. what the white house is doing is saying objectively not true. they are peddling and selling fear. all these attacks have been covered. everybody in america is aware that we face grave threats from radical islamic terrorism. it s a real thing. but, what the white house is doing here is politics, pure and
problematic when we see attacks that happened, then it s down played as violent extremists or something of that nature and we don t identify it for what it is, exacts of terror. that s legitimate. the average american out there thinks that s legitimate. we have to give careful attention. you have to call things what they are, rather than, you know, try to put some ideological thing one way or the other. if it s an act of terror, call it out to protect all americans and allies. in terms of issues of most important, that was his first meeting to speak to military officials. was that the right narrative to talk about, the most pressing, whether or not the media adequately covered certain terrorist attacks? there were a lot of things that were covered. i sat in on many high level meetings. i have been abroad when presidents visited. as a soldier, i sat in those
simple. is it politics pure and simple or is it again, this isn t a campaign. this isn t people trying to win an office. you are now governing. let s talk about kellyanne conway talking about the bowling green massacre. the next day, she said i simply made a mistake. cosmo magazine said this to us two weeks ago. tmz said the same. our way to accept the premise this is just politics? these are a bunch of liars. that s different than politics. they are just lying. they are promoting a dangerous myth. the trump administration views terrorism like it s g.i. joe. many attacks have happened for different reasons. they are not all necessarily connected by al qaeda. if we try to push them in the broad brush, it damages the international security. we have to understand why
i m matt lauer in brusbrussels. here is one you may not have heard of. investigators here at home learning more about the two suspects shot and killed by police after they opened fire at a controversial event in texas. i want to take you live to the white house where nbcs peter alexander is standing by. clearly this offensive is coming on the heels of kellyanne last week and the bowling green massacre. how is the trump white house defending this list when so many of the terror attacks did get extensive coverage? reporter: this is a white house talking point not supported by the facts. let s break them down. 78 of them, they mentioned, 11 of them taking place in the united states. you noted some of the most significant ones. nbc news covered 75% of them. 57 attacks on that list with a combined 745 deaths, hundreds of
are being committed. you ve seen these awful pictures that have been released in the past few days. our own christiane amanpour showed us these pictures. this international group is suggesting this is systemic torture, war crimes created by your government. and i want you to respond because these pictures are awful and i want our viewers we ll show our viewers some of these pictures. to be warned, young people should not see these images. these are not only pictures. these are real people who are being killed by terrorists, who are being kidnapped, who are being raped. i have hundreds of stories to tell you about what s happening to my people. but you really have to be in syria to know who is doing what. one can t be inmanpour, or in n york, and decide who s doing what. remember the chemical?